Hillary and Bill Clinton honeymooned in Haiti in 1975 and made it their favorite country. Haiti today has an economy that barely exceeds $1,700 per person per year and a low position on the UN human development index.

Cuba has a government that is the opposite extreme from that of Port-au-Prince: a regime so oppressive that it has taken everything from its people. In both countries, emigration emerges as the preferred escape valve for those who can access it, leaving behind an increasingly dispossessed population.